Twelve days before last Christmas, Marina Rosa, an artificial intelligence engineer in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, walked into a neighborhood tattoo parlor and laid her left arm on the table. Rosa then asked artist Nadine Guerra to give her a tattoo made up of various elements, including a 1950s-style female cyborg, an abstract squiggle, and four small items that look like stereo speakers. The art was then permanently inked onto Rosaâs... Read more âș
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Since we launched our Weekend section in November 2021, weâve been near-obsessive chroniclers of the generative AI boom. Our very first cover story, written by yours truly, was on Sam Altman and his optimistic vision for OpenAI. We followed that up with reports on how AI image generators would disrupt the design profession, the software that launched a thousand music deepfakes and the e-commerce companies searching... Read more âș
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I knew that this week's conversation on Threads was going to be fun! For better or worse, the Morins and the Lessins have a lot of social media DNA. Dave built a social network Path and helped create the Facebook platform. Sam spent years working on Facebook's social network, wrestling with the balance of public and private content. I am pretty sure we talked about social networking on our very... Read more âș
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Itâs a return to a simpler version of a popular social network. An app without fancy bells and whistles. A new iteration of a famously walled garden, one less commercialized, uncluttered (so far) by advertising, and with more palatable ownership. No, Iâm not talking about Instagramâs Threads. This week, as Meta Platforms introduced the world to its new Twitter knockoff, I was testing out a beta version of Retro, an... Read more âș
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One Saturday morning earlier this year, Noam Shazeer, CEO of Character.AI and one of the worldâs foremost machine-learning researchers, looked out his window to see a stranger perched on a folding chair outside his home in Palo Alto, Calif. The man had come to Shazeerâs quiet residential street to deliver a message that had been gaining steam among devoted users of Character.AI. He had scrawled their plea on a whiteboard... Read more âș
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Welcome back! If you squint, you can see the lineup for tech initial public offerings starting to shuffle together, after a year and a half of dawdling. Thereâs Arm, the SoftBank-backed chip designer that expects to list on the Nasdaq sometime after Labor Day. The fall could also bring debuts for Klaviyo, a marketing-tech firm backed by blue-chip venture capital firms, and Oddity, maker of TikTok-famous beauty brands. Maybe even... Read more âș
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Sequoia Capitalâs Chinese and Indian arms are accelerating efforts to ensure that investors around the world back their funds after the Silicon Valley venture firm completes a landmark split from its Asian affiliates, ending a nearly two-decade partnership. Sequoia Capital China, led by star dealmaker Neil Shen, is planning to host a three-day meeting in Shanghai this November with global investors backing its existing funds, according to two people with... Read more âș
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By now we have all read myriad analyses of Threads, Instagramâs new Twitter killer. Youâve probably seen that Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over the app, alleging that the company stole âtrade secrets.â Hmm, I wonder how the lawsuit will affect the big MMA fight between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk?While there are a lot of angles to analyze, I canât stop thinking about what the early traction of... Read more âș
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OpenSea, the non-fungible token marketplace that rocketed to a $13.3 billion valuation at the peak of the crypto boom, is looking for a new senior policy and government affairs executive after Loni Mahanta, the policy executive it hired from Zillow, quietly left the company after just over a year. In her first interview since her exit in late April, Mahanta declined to speak on the specifics of her departure, but... Read more âș
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Our recently updated Creator Economy Database features four companies founded by some of the largest online creators, all of whom either raised funds or expanded their products to brick-and-mortar stores in the June quarter. Today weâre taking a closer look at what theyâre up to. The pack includes YouTuber Emma Chamberlainâs coffee company, Chamberlain Coffee, which raised $7 million in a round led by Blazar Capital and United Talent Agency... Read more âș
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If youâre like me, youâve signed up for a minimum of three apps trying to compete with Twitter this year. First it was Mastodon, then Bluesky, and now comes Threads, the Instagram sibling app that launched yesterday and raked in an impressive 30 million sign-ups by this morning.It will be incredibly difficult for a tiny startup like Bluesky, which has roughly a dozen employees at this point, to compete with... Read more âș
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Google has big ambitions to develop its own chips for its Pixel phones. So far, however, things havenât gone according to plan. The search giant has delayed by at least one year the release of its first fully customized chip, which would act as the brains for its Pixel line of smartphones, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. Google had originally planned to release the chip,... Read more âș
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Chinese restrictions on the export of two key materials for the high-tech and defense industries could be a harbinger of problems for Western makers of electric vehicles. Chinaâs Commerce Ministry on Monday said it would require permits for the export of gallium and germanium beginning next month. The timing of the announcement, just ahead of U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellenâs arrival today in Beijing, underscored the chilly nature of U.S.-China... Read more âș
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If thereâs a tech billionaire the news media hates more than Mark Zuckerberg, it's Elon Musk. That's why you're seeing an unusual deluge of positive coverage for Meta Platforms' Twitter rival app, Threads, which formally launched a short time ago. The positivity wonât last, to be sure. Before too longâgive it a weekâsomeone in the media will discover that Meta is collecting user data on Threads (shocking!) for advertising purposes,... Read more âș
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Creators have told us they would like more texting features to reach fans on the platforms where they already spend timeâand Instagram seems to be listening. Ahead of the rollout of Threads, its text-focused app expected to launch this week, itâs been courting creators. The separate app, which describes itself as a âtext-based conversation app,â allows users to âfollow and connect directly with your favorite creators,â according to its description... Read more âș
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For months, BuzzFeed stock has traded so low that the Nasdaq recently threatened the company with delisting. With BuzzFeedâs effort to sell Complex Networks, a group of websites targeted at people in hip-hop, fashion and sports, CEO Jonah Peretti has the chance to transform Wall Streetâs view of the company. Peretti is asking $150 million for a group of Complex assets, including its annual ComplexCon festival and its video series... Read more âș
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Can you believe it? Weâre already halfway through 2023! To mark the occasion, Aidan Ryan and I caught up with our 2022 list of the most promising startups in crypto, first published in October, to see how theyâve held up.In an industry that has undergone a tremendous transformation, with collapses like FTX and BlockFi and the SEC cracking down on Coinbase and others, itâs worth pointing out that all six... Read more âș
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When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before Congress in May about the existential risks large-language models and other generative artificial intelligence technologies pose to humanity, there was an elephant in the room. Who believes that Congressâin its current state, at leastâis capable of designing and agreeing upon effective rules to manage this complex and far-reaching technology? Case in point: Last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer outlined a plan for... Read more âș
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Venture capitalists are becoming a little more demanding of crypto firms. At the height of the crypto boom, venture investors were so focused on winning hot deals that they didnât push for audited financial statements or board seats. Now some are demanding both, venture capitalists and outside accounting providers say. Some are also insisting startups hire part-time finance executives, known as fractional chief financial officers, to watch over their financial... Read more âș
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Gurdeep Pall, a 33-year Microsoft corporate vice president who helped build and promote key products like Windows, Skype and Bing, recently informed colleagues that he plans to retire from the company in September, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Since joining Microsoft in 1990, Pall has served as a high-profile executive under former CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer and current CEO and Chairman Satya Nadella, frequently appearing... Read more âș
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